The camera lies all the time; lies 24 times/second.

I do like directing other people's material.

When you make a movie outside the system and it's successful critically or a moderate financial success, you usually have to go back into the system and make a big hit

So I like to try to go back and develop pure visual storytelling. Because to me, it's one of the most exciting aspects of making movies and almost a lost art at this point

I mean, I don't mind promoting a movie, or talking to the press if it's going to be used in some way

You never can predict things. I knew the movie Peducted would get a reaction, because it's showing a different vision of our soldiers in Iraq. All we ever get told is that they're valued and we support them, and as they're represented on television, they're true-blue and honorable. Which is true, for the most part.

I've been obsessed with this kind of visual storytelling for quite a while, and I try to create material that allows me to explore it.